Prax

Damn I was hoping to fill a gap Just like another 200 or so ebayers. You had me there Rash

Agree with Rob. Freeman in his book says that one has to stop somewhere else every coin is a variety in itself. That said this coin has a clear 3 over 3 so to call it an overdate is warranted but to call it a new variety would be taking it a bit too far.

Looks like the squashed centipede variety to me. I'm not sure about whether this occurred at the Mint. Some of the legend appears to be struck into this 'blob' which would kind of suggest it was, but............ Some people will do anything to try and create a market and generate some money from the unsuspecting. For me, if a Mint 'error' then I'd maybe pay a fiver for it, but not 200 times that. squashed centipede variety

Nice Pete

Perfect ..... more an ass

Will alert my sources if I am able to locate another then we can trade for something you have 2 of that I don't (which sadly is an exhaustive list)

It is not a mule but it is what Freeman quotes in his footnotes which mention that at times on some 1860 coins some teeth that are not struck properly give the impression of looking like beads due to an improper strike. People do collect this as a variety but £200 is a bit over the moon. The teeth at 6 o clock are not struck well and look like beads and there are others which are not linked to the rim. I have one of these which I posted recently on the "More Pennies" thread

Looks like Vicky's hit puberty look at that lovely lump (Adam's Apple in her neck). For someone that does not collect Silver even I can say that is fake The way her neck curves etc

F76 acquired (thanks Dave Sanderson for the http://www.michael-c...k/BP1874 M.htm) BP 1874 E acquired (thanks Steve Easter) ============== still seeking F19 F27 F69 (VF+) F103 Prax

BP 1874 E

Gary Is a soft copy of this article available please?

Damn I thought I had exclusive access to typos and grammatical errors.

lcwyon :-)

It won't be long before you're "Almost a piece of furniture", or something like that. Is that when the forum gods take turns to buy me beers ?

I must add the obverse looks fine to me and it is a nice coin.

Yeah with that comment I have gone from being a "Regular participating member" to a "very familiar face". Doesn't surprise me considering I have been on this page almost daily (.... and spending considerable time on it) for the last 3 or 4 months

I would agree with NGC for the following reasons a) Looking at Britannia's left tit you can see some wear and on top of this wear there is a coating of colour (artificial shine?). Now if the coin were to wear it would have taken the luster off first. The fact that on top of the luster there is wear is suspecious There are some minor scratches/hairlines as I have shown in the circled areas. The area around the leg is particularly interesting. These scratches again have luster which fills the crevices. Only rarely would we see such a degree of scratches on a platchet before it is struck. The fact that the coin had this level of scratches before the luster was applied makes me believe this luster was applied after the coin saw a bit of circulation.

F76 acquired (thanks Dave Sanderson for the http://www.michael-coins.co.uk/BP1874 M.htm) still seeking F19 F27 F69 (VF+) BP 1874 E F103 Prax

came off - spelling and grammar time again

Been a good boy for the rest of the month Coinery (Stu). This came of the March 2015 budget Reached home a this morning

Distance from the rim is one indicator the other I find useful is N of ONE is not equidistant. It is more closer to E

Yes

lol 20 teeth it is

Nice coin Prax. It's not one of the scarce types but still a beautiful coin. Was it a type you were missing in your collection or did you get it as an upgrade? Neither it is a NGC 64 RB and I got it 2 reasons a) because it looked like there was a raised area between R and G and because it is the first example that I have which conforms to Freeman's footnote 3, which states that sometimes the tooths give the impression of being beads as the area closest to the rim is not struck properly. With this one there are about 20 tooths suffering from this problem in various places